This will be the 9th meeting in a series organized by czech
universities every three years since 1980. By end of April, approximately 200
participants from 30 countries are pre-registered (see the conference webpage http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~dgac/).

A meeting
of the Editorial Board of the journal Differential Geometry
and its Applications will take place during the conference. At the moment the
following 12 foreign members of the Editorial Board promised to come: D.
Alekseevsky, B. Dubrovin, T. Friedrich, K. Fukaya, P. Gilkey, M.Gotay, E.
Heintze, M. Modugno, T. Ratiu, J. Stasheff, L. Vanhecke, A. Vinogradov.

All
participants are encouraged to submit a talk or a poster. The chairmen of
sections reserve the right to select contributions for oral presentation. If
you have not announced the title of your contribution yet, do it in the
registration form below (by May 31), please.If you have not sent your abstract yet, do so definitely by June 30,
please.

PROCEEDINGS

Participants are invited to submit their contribution to the conference
Proceedings that will be subject of a regular peer review procedure. The
Proceedings will be published after the conference in printed and electronic
(within the EMIS Electronic Library of the European Mathematical Society)
versions. All submitted papers should be in TeX.

CONFERENCE VENUE

The
conference venue is the Hotel Krystal in Prague. All lectures will take place
in this hotel, a ***accommodation in single and double rooms and full board is
provided during the conference. There is a possibility of cheap accomodation in
student’s dormitories (double, triple rooms) in 30 minutes walking distance
from the hotel (or 20 minutes by public transport).

ARRIVALS,
DEPARTURES, TRANSPORT

The arrival
day is Sunday, August 29, 2004, the departure day is Saturday 4 September
2004.In the case of earlier arrivals
or later departures, accommodation in the hotel is also possible. Please
announce the dates of your arrival/departure in the registration form below (by
May 31).

Arrival by
plane: Prague can be reached by international flights from all over the world.
The hotel Krystal is approx. 10km from the airport Prague-Ruzyne and can be
easily reached by taxi (10 minutes) or Prague public transport (20 minutes).

Arrival by
train: there are convenient train connections from Vienna, Bratislava, Warsaw,
Berlin, Dresden, Nuernberg, Munich. From the main railway stations, the hotel
Krystal can be reached by taxi (15 minutes) or public transport (30 minutes).

Arrival by
car: The hotel Krystal is located next to the Highway No.7 (direction Airport,
Chomutov, Chemnitz) – Evropska Street. Parking is possible on a street in front
of the hotel (free of charge) or in a protected parking lot of the hotel (100
CZK=3 EUR per night).

Exact
information about transport to the hotel will be given in the 3rd
announcement and on the conference webpage.

CONFERENCE FEES
& PAYMENTS

Prices in
CZK

Prices in
EUR

Accomodation
6 nights (Aug 29 – Sep 4)

Hotel
Krystal – single room

6000

180

Hotel
Krystal – double room

4000

120

Student’s
dormitory

1200

36

Board
5 days (Aug 30 – Sep 3)

Full
board

2000

60

Conference
fee

Standard
conference fee paid by June 30

4500

135

Standard
conference fee paid after June 30

5000

150

Extra
days

Hotel
Krystal – single room

1000

30

Hotel
Krystal – double room

670

20

Student’s
dormitory

200

6

Full
board (*)

400

12

The
conference fee covers:

all conference materials,

a printed version of the
Proceedings (not available for participants with reduced conference fee),

free refreshment during coffee
breaks,

free entrance to the social
programme on Wednesday evening (steamboat trip with dinner).

Please,
compute your bill by adding accomodation+ board + conference fee. In the case you plan to arrive or leave
earlier or later, your accomodation or board fee changes – just add or subtract
the appropriate number of extra daily rates. The number of full board can be
only reduced, not extended (the food during extra days is on your own
expenses). Send the total sum to our bank account (see below).

In all
cases, don’t forget to fill in the variable symbol 4019 and/or the message
“DGA”. Please note that the conference fee changes if paid before/after June
30.

You can
also pay on place during the Conference, but in cash only (in czech crowns or
euro). Credit cards are not accepted by the organizers. You can, of course, pay
for the hotel accomodation by a credit card, but a notably higher price.

FINANCIAL SUPPORT

The
Conference budget allows a limited support in the form of a fee reduction
(approximately to one half of the total, available only for students,
post-docs, and young researchers. The request for the reduction of the fee must
be delivered to the organizers before May 31, 2004, and should involve the
abstract of the contribution and should be supported by the applicant’s CV and
possibly a letter of recommendation. The organizing committee reserves the
right to decide on the individual applications. The decision will be
communicated by June 14.

No other
form of financial support can be given.

SOCIAL PROGRAM

Wednesday
(September 1) afternoon is free. We will offer the participants among others an
evening steamboat trip on the river Vltava with dinner.

REGISTRATION

If you have
already pre-registered, please, confirm your registration by filling the
following form and e-mail it to the organizers (dgac@karlin.mff.cuni.cz) by May
31, 2004:

Yes, I do confirm my participation at the 9TH INTERNATIONAL CONFERENCE
ON DIFFERENTIAL GEOMETRY AND ITS APPLICATIONS.

Since the capacity of the conference is
saturated, this form is aimed to the preregistered participants only.
Please fill the following form by May 31, 2004.

Name + Surname:

Affiliation, postal address (if not announced yet):

Preferred type of contribution (if any):

lecture
poster

in Section:

A
B
C

The title and the abstract of the lecture (if not announced yet):

Arrival day:

Departure day:

Chosen type of accomodation (if not announced yet):

hotel single room
hotel double room
student's dormitories

If hotel double room, then I prefer to share it with:

Mode of payment:

by bank transfer in CZK
by bank transfer in EUR
by cash during the Conference

Comments, special wishes (if not announced yet):

CONFERENCE WEBPAGE

All up-to date information can be found at
http://www.karlin.mff.cuni.cz/~dgac/